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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

apad.org.uk

APAD | The Association of Public Authority Deputies

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

208 ms

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About Website

Welcome to apad.org.uk homepage info - get ready to check APAD best content right away, or after learning these important things about apad.org.uk

The Association of Public Authority Deputies is a network that allows local authority representatives across England and Wales to share ideas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apad.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apad.org.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,230 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.apad.org.uk

1251 ms

js

51 ms

style.min.css

94 ms

bbpress.min.css

177 ms

front.css

239 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Apad.org.uk, 12% (5 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Apad.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 54.5 kB (12%)

Content Size

461.7 kB

After Optimization

407.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apad.org.uk main page is 461.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 294.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 41.5 kB

  • Original 52.6 kB
  • After minification 50.9 kB
  • After compression 11.1 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 41.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 736 B

  • Original 294.6 kB
  • After minification 293.9 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. APAD images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 72.1 kB
  • After minification 72.1 kB
  • After compression 69.2 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 42.4 kB
  • After minification 42.4 kB
  • After compression 33.0 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Apad.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.3 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (50%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of APAD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.apad.org.uk

www.apad.org.uk

1251 ms

js

js

51 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

94 ms

bbpress.min.css

bbpress.min.css

177 ms

front.css

front.css

239 ms

style.css

style.css

239 ms

screen.min.css

screen.min.css

240 ms

if-menu-site.css

if-menu-site.css

242 ms

frontend.css

frontend.css

238 ms

style.css

style.css

267 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

402 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

318 ms

frontend.js

frontend.js

319 ms

modernizr.custom.min.js

modernizr.custom.min.js

320 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

327 ms

rotating_tweet.js

rotating_tweet.js

350 ms

report-post.js

report-post.js

398 ms

front.min.js

front.min.js

399 ms

twitter-widgets.js

twitter-widgets.js

492 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

493 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

496 ms

config.js

config.js

499 ms

main.js

main.js

500 ms

NluunlC6_normal.jpg

NluunlC6_normal.jpg

78 ms

3jl9J5es_normal.jpg

3jl9J5es_normal.jpg

75 ms

oTPBntUl_normal.jpg

oTPBntUl_normal.jpg

109 ms

g8TTib1o_normal.jpg

g8TTib1o_normal.jpg

74 ms

Sc3bCfY4_normal.jpg

Sc3bCfY4_normal.jpg

74 ms

logo.png

logo.png

90 ms

icon-key.png

icon-key.png

88 ms

icon-register.png

icon-register.png

89 ms

intro-home.jpg

intro-home.jpg

386 ms

tick-green.png

tick-green.png

127 ms

arrow-blue.png

arrow-blue.png

133 ms

APAD-300x29.jpg

APAD-300x29.jpg

166 ms

twitter-bird-16x16.png

twitter-bird-16x16.png

165 ms

reply.png

reply.png

165 ms

retweet.png

retweet.png

207 ms

favorite.png

favorite.png

213 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

246 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

37 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

19 ms

settings

settings

97 ms

Accessibility Review

apad.org.uk accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

apad.org.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

apad.org.uk SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Apad.org.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Apad.org.uk main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

apad.org.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of APAD. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: